Daikin Announces ReelDVD-Cinema Craft Encoder Lite Bundle

17-May-00

Daikin U.S. Comtec Laboratories, the world leader in DVD software tools, began shipping Custom Technology Corporation's Cinema Craft Encoder (CCE) Lite with Daikin's ReelDVD. CCE Lite is a simple yet powerful offline MPEG-2 encoder that is ideal for desktop NLE and DVD authoring solutions. With support for AVI and QuickTime files, the program features 4, 6 and 8Mbps CBR encoding and includes both a standalone version and an Adobe Premiere plug-in for writing directly to MPEG-2. Mark Moore, Cinemacraft Director of Sales and Marketing, commented that ""Cinemacraft is dedicated to offering production-quality MPEG-2 encoding to the corporate and educational markets. We are very excited about teaming up with Daikin in order to make available a best-of-breed encoding and DVD authoring package."" Daikin's ReelDVD combines professional-level software with a user-friendly interface and simple workflow. It is designed specifically for video and corporate applications to enable the integration of DVD and multimedia. The addition of the CCE Lite encoder enables non-linear editors and production houses to quickly move their AVI and QuickTime content directly to the ReelDVD authoring environment without the need to first transfer to tape. ""CCE Lite's simple drag-and-drop interface matches well with that of ReelDVD to provide an easy-to-use and yet very flexible DVD authoring environment,"" said Dr. Panos Nasiopoulos, Director of Marketing communications for Daikin U.S. ""It's a perfect fit for adding affordable DVD output to the thousands of non-linear video editing systems in use today."" The ReelDVD-CCE Lite bundle is available immediately through Daikin distribution channels. About Cinemacraft Inc. Cinemacraft Inc., a San Jose, California subsidiary of Custom Technology Corporation of Yokohama, Japan, develops, manufactures and sells MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 software and other image processing codecs. CTC has developed numerous product configurations with software MPEG encoding as its core. These products are of interest to OEMs and VARs in a number of industries, including cable, broadcast, personal computers, the Internet and DVD production. About Daikin U.S. Comtec Laboratories Based in Novato, California, Daikin U.S. Comtec Laboratories is the center of operations for R&D, marketing and technical support for the worldwide distribution of Scenarist, Scenarist EDK, ReelDVD, DVD Informer and ROM Formatter, the acclaimed family of DVD authoring tools. Daikin U.S. Comtec Laboratories is a subsidiary of Daikin Industries, Ltd., of Japan.

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